587 So. 2d 1236 - Ex Parte White’s Empirical Analysis

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60 state decisions

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The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'Error' is 'plain error' only when it 'has or probably has adversely affected the substantial rights of the [defendant],' Rule [45A], A.R.App.P., and plain error is to be acted upon 'in the same manner as if the defendant's counsel had preserved and raised [the] error for appellate review.' Johnson v. State , 507 So.2d 1351 , 1356 (Ala. 1986).”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 631 So. 2d 289 - Powell v. State · 678 So. 2d 201 - Land v. State

2. “"We have specifically examined petitioner's claim that the trial court's instruction to the jury on `reasonable doubt' was `plain error.' In that examination, we have compared the trial court's jury instruction regarding `reasonable doubt' with the instruction recently reviewed by the United States Supreme Court in Cage v. Louisiana, ___ U.S. ___, 111 S.Ct. 328 , 112 L.Ed.2d 339 (1990), and condemned by that Court as violative of Cage's constitutional rights. The instruction given in this case does not contain the same infirmity that the Supreme Court of the United States found in the trial court's instruction in Cage . We hold, therefore, that there is no `plain error' affecting the substantial rights of the petitioner, and thus, no legal reason to grant the petitioner a new trial." Ex parte White, 587 So.2d 1236 (Ala.1991).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 587 So. 2d 1072 - Parker v. State